Re:Mental Model Fallacy (2018)
by chairmanwow1 on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @05:50PM
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I don't understand how you make the leap from knowledge being equated to the field being dead? Taxonomy provides a foundation for others to learn about something.
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Of course. But thinking belongs to the practitioner, the point is that you have to do it and not just study the doing of it.
You acquire a mental model by doing the things that lead to having that mental model, not by reading about the model. Memorizing a taxonomy of cognitive biases doesn't necessarily make you a better thinker, anymore than memorizing design patterns necessarily makes you a better programmer.